Advanced Research on Flood Hazards, Risk Assessment and Socio-Economic Resilience

Dear Colleagues,

Fueled by accelerating climate change and rapid urban sprawl, global flood risks have intensified drastically, threatening human lives, public infrastructure, urban ecosystems and regional sustainable development. Most existing flood studies focus on hydrological processes, numerical modeling and technical mitigation, while insufficiently addressing socio-economic dimensions such as social vulnerability, industrial disruptions, economic spillover losses and uneven post-disaster recovery. To fill this research gap, this Special Issue integrates natural, engineering and socio-economic perspectives. It aims to collect high-quality original papers and reviews to advance state-of-the-art compound flood risk understanding, highlight socio-economic risk attribution and inclusive governance, and provide solid theoretical and practical support for constructing adaptive, flood-resilient urban systems.

Potential topics for this Special Issue include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Multi-factor driving mechanism analysis of flood hazards covering natural, anthropogenic and socio-economic factors;
• Hydrological and hydrodynamic modeling, simulation and scenario prediction of flood processes;
• Intelligent monitoring, forecasting and early warning technologies for flood events;
• Urban flood risk assessment, disaster loss simulation and engineering mitigation strategies;
• Theories, technical frameworks and practical cases of flood-resilient urban construction;
• Socio-economic impacts of floods: social vulnerability, differentiated disaster effects, industrial and economic losses, and post-disaster socio-economic recovery;
• Human-oriented flood risk management, inclusive disaster prevention policies and public participation in flood resilience development.

Dr. Zhongfan Zhu
Prof. Dr. Yingna Sun
Guest Editors

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